The poor transition D9Y1

It's Gonna be a long 1,460 days!

(that's 4 years!)

11/17/16

Well.   Let's see.   Governor Liar Christie (whose top aides were convicted in the Bridgegate debacle) is out as Mr. Trump's Transition coordinator.

• As Trump Leaves Press Behind for Steak Dinner, Incoming Admin Already Showing Lack of Transparency

WTF??? D4Y1

And I say this with Great Respect.

WTF???  and with GUSTO...  WTF

• Sarah Palin as Secretary of the Interior?
• Newt Gingrich as Secretary of Anything?

Are We going from the land of "WE WANT CHANGE", and "DUMP the Corrupt Politicians"  to "LETS GUT THE COUNTRY"  so fast?


Am I crazy or am I the only one that remembers when Newt:

• Resigned from congress in disgrace.
•  Started all the Craziness of "BLOCK the Democrats at ALL COSTS" (aka Contract with America)
• SHUT DOWN the ENTIRE GOVERNMENT in 1995 and 1996.
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The view from Michael Moore D3Y1

Year 1, Day 3;  Nov 11, 2016

Gee What an anniversary.  The first few days of the end of the world.

Just saw this letter from Michael Moore  and thought I'd share it:

Interesting food for thought..

Morning After To-Do List:
1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.
2. Fire all pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide" and "come together." They will pull more hooey like that out of their ass in the days to come. Turn them off.
3. Any Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight, resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to begin.
4. Everyone must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked". What you mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties, the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all "You're fired!" Trump's victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the media will never own that.
5. You must say this sentence to everyone you meet today: "HILLARY CLINTON WON THE POPULAR VOTE!" The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking you live in an effed-up country, you don't. The majority of your fellow Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he's president is because of an arcane, insane 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we change that, we'll continue to have presidents we didn't elect and didn't want. You live in a country where a majority of its citizens have said they believe there's climate change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority agree with the "liberal" position. We just lack the liberal leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).

Let's try to get this all done by noon today.
-- Michael Moore

Day Two's To-Do List:
1. Must quickly and decisively form an opposition movement, the likes of which hasn't been seen since the 1960s. I will do my part to help lead this as I'm sure many others (Bernie, Elizabeth Warren, MoveOn, the hip-hop community, DFA, etc.) will, too. The core of this opposition force will be fueled by young people who, as with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, don't tolerate b.s. and are relentless in their resistance to authority. They have no interest in compromising with racists and misogynists.

2. Prepare to impeach Trump. Just as the Republicans were already planning to do with President Hillary from Day One, we must organize the apparatus that will bring charges against him when he violates his oath and breaks the law -- and then we must remove him from office.

3. Must commit right now to a vigorous fight (including civil disobedience, if necessary) which will block any and all Donald Trump Supreme Court nominees who do not meet our approval. We demand the Democrats in the Senate aggressively filibuster any nominees who support Citizens United or who oppose the rights of women, immigrants and the poor. This is non-negotiable.

4. Demand the DNC apologize to Bernie Sanders for trying to fix the primaries against him, for spinning the press to ignore his historic campaign, for giving Clinton the questions in advance at the Flint debate, for its latent ageism and anti-Semism in trying to turn voters against him because of his age or religious beliefs, and for its anti-democracy system of "superdelegates" who are elected by no one. We all know now had Bernie been given a fair shot, he probably would have been the nominee and he -- as the true outsider and "change" candidate --would have inspired and fired up the base and soundly defeated Donald Trump. If no apology is soon forthcoming from the DNC, that's ok -- when we take over the Democratic Party (see yesterday's To-Do List, #1), we will issue the apology in person.

5. Demand that President Obama establish a Special Prosecutor to investigate who and what was behind FBI Director James Comey's illegal interference into the Presidential election 11 days before the vote was held.

6. Begin a national push while it's fresh in everyone's mind for a constitutional amendment to fix our broken electoral system: 1. Eliminate the Electoral College -- popular vote only. 2. Paper ballots only -- no electronic voting. 3. Election Day must be made a holiday for all -- or held on a weekend so more people vote. 4. All citizens, regardless of any run-ins with the criminal "justice" system, must have the right to vote. (In swing states like Florida and Virginia, 30-40% of all Black men are prohibited by law from voting.)

7. Convince President Obama to immediately do what he should have done a year ago: Send in the Army Corps of Engineers to Flint to dig up and replace all the poisoned pipes. NOTHING HAS CHANGED; the water in Flint is still unusable.

Oh, the Shock of it all -NO Mulligans Allowed

Year 1, Day 1;  Nov 9, 2016

Oh the shock of it all.

I will survive.  I will now PEACEFULLY protest, not claim to use my 2nd amendment rights to pick up arms, and will support my new government.

• This does NOT mean I can like it.   I don't.   In the election of 2000, when the Supreme's elected Bush II instead of the rightful winner, I protested for a year by NOT standing for the National Anthem or when saying a  prayer for our country.

This time I will be blogging, hopefully daily, about the stupidity of our country, the media's influence on our elections, and how stupid we as a country are.

A man with:

• NO Political Experience
• A proven record of  poor performance
• Inappropriate words and actions to all,  publicly documented
• Has declared (corporate) bankruptcy multiple times
• Has not paid ONE CENT in Federal Income taxes in the past 20 years
• Has a Transitions Chairman (Chris Christy) who LIED to the public about BridgeGate
• Claims he can "build a wall", and force Mexico to pay for it
• Great TV charisma, and a Natural Salesman

Is now apparently going to be our next president.

More after I process this and go back to sleep (and cry some more)